It is not that precisely is it has spoken little of security systems of instant messaging applications that flooded the markets of apps from Google and Apple and who will soon receive a new contender in the form of Google Allo. After WhatsApp encryption systems, many thought is putting at the height of the Telegram in terms of protection of the privacy of the users. Nothing further from the truth.
And to wield this statement we do not mean only the application with more downloads of history, but also the app created by Pavel Durov, since Thomas Fox-Brewster, the hacker who posted videos discovering vulnerabilities in WhatsApp does the same thing with Telegram, leaving the legend that keeps it as one of the safest moment apps by land.
How hack WhatsApp in minutes
To circumvent the security of both applications, Thomas Fox-Brewster of vale of signalling system no. 7, also known as SS7 common channel. It is a system that employ the majority of telephone networks and that, so that we can see in the following video, allows a user with enough knowledge to hack WhastApp.
Roughly, we can say that the hacker fool this system of SS7 signaling that we just mentioned to impersonate the victim phone by its own terminal. This form and knowing the phone number of the victim the hacker gets access to all the application of instant messaging conversations, and even participate in them with the risk that this entails.
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Telegram
Many think that Telegram is a lot safer than WhatsApp application, in fact advocates put forward this argument whenever he plays attacking the current Queen of instant messaging applications. However, as we can see in the following video by the same author can discover how in a few easy steps is possible hackert Telegram, and in less time that it takes to become a WhatsApp.
The method used is the same, demonstrating that hackers can overlook the protections of encryption of both applications through the exploitation of SS7 and thus create duplicate accounts that receive all messages destined to the phone of the victim.
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Despite how easy that seems, for an expert user, access our personal content; Karsten Nohl, renowned for his work SS7 security researcher, recommended to use both WhatsApp as Telegram for its end-to-end encryption system, much safer than other messaging systems like SMS:
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The article thus is WhatsApp and Telegram hacks in just minutes are published in MovilZona.